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rcdemskiyesterday at 9:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Reminds me of the Eye-Fi SD cards [0] that would store photos taken with your camera and then allow you to wirelessly over your network download photos from the camera, and later would do geotagging based on visible wifi networks. 20 years ago it felt like the future.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-Fi


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jewelyesterday at 9:34 PM

I had an Eye-Fi card in my DSLR years ago and had a python script [0] running on my home server that'd download the photos as they were taken. It'd play a noise over the home audio system to let the taker know that the photo had transferred.

It worked fairly well but at some point I got nervous that it might miss a photo and switched back to a boring SD card.

[0]: https://www.returnbooleantrue.com/2009/01/eye-fi-standalone-...